Seeking to explain the absence of mention of anti-India terror in the US' new Af-Pak strategy, India has said the Obama Administration was "looking at" terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad "off-camera".
Welcoming the Af-Pak policy unveiled on Tuesday, minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor said the pressure
maintained by the US on Taliban and al-Qaeda there is in the interest of India as it keeps such elements on the "backfoot".
"Af-Pak is Afghanistan and Pakistan and does not include India...The US President was addressing his own people about the commitment his government made to the people and to sent their national troops to the foreign land," Tharoor told Karan
Thapar's Devil's Advocate programme while explaining why terrorism in India found no mention in the policy.
When it was pointed out that even terror groups such as LeT and Jaish-e Mohammed, which are based in Pakistan, found no mention in the US strategy, Tharoor said the US was not engaged in any operations against India's "immediate enemies".
On whether it meant that the US was ignoring India's concerns on terrorism, he disagreed, saying, "the US is looking at the terrorism that affects us ... and it's off-camera."
